Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Sexual orientation and reverse discrimination — from EmployerLINC
- Harassment complaints by male Homeland Security employees — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Can a Netflixian Approach to Selection Decisions Eliminate Discrimination? — from Stephanie Thomas’s Proactive Employer Blog
- Employer wins lawsuit despite a "pattern of systematic sexual harassment" — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Helping Employers Against Employees Who Help Themselves to Company Information to Build a Discrimination Claim — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Discrimination claims by Muslims on the rise — from California Employment Law
- Employment Litigation: How Much Will You Pay? — from Mark Toth’s Manpower Employment Blawg
- Orders to “Go see the Doc” cost Baltimore County $475,000 — from Employment Discrimination Report
- The EEOC Came Knocking (Part Two): Effective Position Statements — from Suzanne Boy’s Southwest Florida HR Law & Solutions
- Virtually All of The Fortune 500 Companies Voluntarily Prohibit Discrimination On The Basis of Sexual Orientation — from Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- The Business BYO Craze: Has It Gone Too Far? — from hr bartender
- Use Your Email Signatures to Get Overeager Coworkers Off Your Back — from Lifehacker
- Does the Company or the Employee Own a Twitter Account? — from California Employment Law Report
- Social tools for tracking your employees — from Mike VanDervort’s The Human Race Horses
- CFO firing after Chick-fil-A post shows what's protected and what’s not in social media speech — from Phoenix Business Blog
- How to Use Social Media Evidence in Workplace Investigations — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- “I Would Like To Extend You A Counter-Offer To Suck My Dick”: A Rejected Jobseeker Sends The Padres The Best Letter Ever — from Deadspin
- Separation Agreement or No Separation Agreement? — from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- Criminal Convictions and Arrests - To Hire Or Not To Hire? — from From the Sidebar
- Your employer sucks and isn’t going to change — from Ask a Manager
- My Employer Says I Have To Resign. What Should I Do? — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Locking Janitors in Wal-Mart - False Imprisonment? — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Wage & Hour
- The One In Which I Try to Explain the Joint Employer Test — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- FLSA Lessons from Gordon Ramsay — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Can my boss track my hours? — from Suzanne Lucas, the Evil HR Lady, writing at CBS Money Watch
- Tenth Circuit Upholds Salary Basis (and Thus Exempt Status) Despite Deductions From PTO Bank — from Wage and Hour Law Update
- Overtime and Exotic Dancers — from Alabama Employment Law Report
- Federal Judge Severely Limits Scope of Auto-Deduct Collective Action — from Healthcare Employment Counsel
- Beware the loose thread that can unravel the entire garment — from Mike Maslanka’s Work Matters
- Why You Should Know Your Rights Under FMLA — from Workplace Fairness
Labor Relations
- NLRB Taking Aggressive Legal Positions in Attempt to Remain Relevant — from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update
- An uninvited guest: the NLRB settles in — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
- Does the Golden Rule Violate Section 7 of the NLRA? — from Labor Relations Institute
- NLRB Sets Sights on “At-Will” Provisions — from Hiring & Firing
- Free Speech is not Protected at Work but Some things you say may be. — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions